New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-05-15
THE TITANIA IN THE WATER.
C. OLIVER IsELIYs NEW RACING YACHT.
GAY ASSEMBLY AT CITY IsLAND-CosPARED
WITH THE SHAMROCK.

There sort Of jubilee at City Island yesterday
Several hundred people went up there from New-forK
by trains and in boats the steel soop when
Henry Piepgras has built for Oliver Iselnake her rst
plunge into the water They full Of enthusiasm
and were on the alert applaud everything they saw
done about the handsome craft for fear that their ap
pause would not be given at the right moment NO ONO
seemed to have definite idea as to when the launch
would take place. and Of people were on the scene
at noon and stayed until dusk. The tide reached Jus
greatest height shortly after o'clock and about that
time those who had been invited by Mr. Isoln to try
tobogganning yacht began TO pick out choice places
on deck and prepare themselves for the jolt
They numbered about thirty and included Henry
Steers, Colonel Delaney Kane Lieutenant William
HEM, Woodbury. Kane, William Kent John g. Edwards
Mr. and Mrs. Columbus Isen, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. lsein'
Mr. and Mrs Pierrepont Edw ards, j. lie Baron Willard,
Alfred Roosevelt, Adrian Isein, jr, ViceCommodore
Mofatt OF the Atlantic Yacht Club, the Rev. Charles
Hgbee of Pelham, and Captain Thomas Odell and L. t.
o. Olsen, the skipper and mate There was some delay
in getting things ready and the blocks were not started
until go The sloop moved slowly for few feet and
then stopped the cradle upon which she rested had
stuck in the mud and she refused to bulge an inch until
the deck had hauled away at rope for ten min
and red in the face Then she continued her
journey easily as though nothing had happened
Iselins daughter Nora eystened the boat Titana,
and sitting the stern broke bottle of champagne
over the bow by simply releasing her hold on rope
end of which heavy weight When the rope was
sackened the weight fell on the bottle ana broke III INTO
a thousand pieces. sailor who was standing 100 near
had his hand badly cut by the flying glass; and the DOOR,
which had been pushed over 70 star6oard swung around
and broke the ensign staff off the tafrall An hour
after touched the water the Tanas centreDoal had
been shipped and her sails set and she started Tor New
Rochelle. where she VIII be anchored on nr bse
house until the Atlantic Yacht Club regatta on Decora
ton Day. a. ,.,., , .,o
shore were George Parsons Lathrop John L Loveioy,
Captain Freestone, OF the Nourmahal captain H9Maru
Patterson. William L. Bishop and Captain van "!cK'
The Titania was designed by Edward Burgess. and
promises to be as much faster than the other fast boats
In her his earlier creations the Puritan and
Mayhower, theirs Her lines are much finer than those
OF the Mayiower She has straight stem, overhangng
counter and raking sernpos and her greatest 1eptn Is
and forms trough into which twentyour tons of lead
ballast poured TO Offset the strain resulting from
such low disposition of the ballast the hull has been
made extremely strong The steel plates on the outside
are wrought flush from the gnnwale TO the keel The
board trunk is plated with onequarter inch steel. The
principal Dimensions are: Length over all 81 feet
feet beam at water line 10 feet inches depth from
gnwae to keel feet depth OF hold ee c d inNses
length OF cenreboard 20 feet greatest depth OF centre
SGea of greatest nSST % Section 81
ooeicient OF displacement OIL length OF mast rom
d denb r9 feet inches BOOM s. feet gan IS feet
bowsprit cupboard, "a feet; spinnaker BOOM % feet;
square feet She is fitted with trunk cabin in which
there is connections saloon three large staterooms
",
castle large enough to accommodate eight men,
The first test OF the Ttanias speed Will probably he
Sandy Hook Lightship with j. Roger MaXwelIs new
boat, the shamrock which was Launched at Jonn a,
opinion as which is the more likely to win Is to DC
found in their dimensions for both models OF naval
architecture and there is nothing in the difference OF
the other The tana has the advantage OF being three
feet three inches longer the water lne than the
Shamrock and this makes her slight favorite nj pres
emit For purposes OF comparison the sIanrocks meas,
inches length line, GO feet inches extreme
depth from e7Inwale to keel 10 feet inches depth OF
hold feet inches draugh feet inches; least free
board feet 10 inches displacement 6S tons; area "i
greatest transverse section SO feet coecent of dis
placement O25 length of mast from deck to hounds, %
6 inehes boom. 81 feet; gaf, ~ feet 9o"sprt OUT
board 80 feet; spinnaker BOOM % feet; hoist OF main
SAIL AZ feet; area OF plain sails, 1000 feet.
YACHTING NOTES.
Chester W. Chapins schooner Julia Poions
yard yesterday lobe htei with her racing spars The
@a dseS to H SauS O od 9 ehs
81 eet inches foretopmast cap uncnFci
main main bS0 s e 70 S saD feet %S ss Old
q feet inches new SS feet inches s oo @pT OF s T e
inches but vii hereafter carry single OK 9rwsra VIII.
long the club 20 spinnaker boom 81 feet
The cenireboard soop Active has been sold by Charles hi
Perry Bven agency and WIN be a.ded 10 he NoT Haven
n j., by William L. Force ior 3 W J.
nTst and n, has made Yacht s sB cus In sal when
She chartered by Herman oerehs she beat every
feet inches line 81 feet; beam, 10 feet depth
feet inches and draughl. q feet
Henry BRYANT Of Boston the owner Of the famous soop
placed her in the hands OF brokers 10 sell
schooner Palmer viii be stepped tonor-
John NJ. sawyer at Work on her mAinsili yese
No. and contains $500 square
-,
FxCommodore returned from cruise 10 the
eastward in the cutter Friday lie reports cold
weather and light winds
The Brookyn Clubs opening day Is fixed for Decora
Day and the annual regatta Will take place IN Gravesend
Bay June 10
The schooner Monank with her owner John i. Brooks
aboard has gone 10 Norfolk.
yacht Picket and the schooner Naruna are being
overhauled at TebOs dock.
beng prepared 10 go into commission at
| John Mumm's Atlantic 1Iuant POcahOntaA
Vixen Winona Birdie naTDet, IlderaL and Dare anu
schooners WyveTn. GIayiDg, NOrseman, Gheyaa Avalon
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